Kenny L. Hardin, Candidate for Salisbury City Council
♦ RANDOM MORNING THOUGHTS: I will be a Mayor of openness and transparency. I will ensure accountability and efficiency of the City government and the services offered. I will provide answers to citizen’s questions and open all the books on concerns like Fibrant, financial mismanagement concerns, gang prevention grants, hiring practices, and our law enforcement. I will ask City Department leaders to show verifiable progress in the services they offer. I will take the politics out of politics and if in doing so it causes anxiety or discomfort for anyone, then you may not be suited for your role and businesses.
I’m not running for office to make friends on the Council, broker back door deals or make promises to special interest groups or individuals. If this is being done, I will expose those who are engaged in it. I will not go along just to get along.
I keep hearing those currently on the Council saying we should be focused on finding solutions instead of pointing out problems. Well, you’ve been on the Council for consecutive terms, so why is finding solutions now so critical in your tenure? You whine about people focusing on negativity instead of seeing the positive. With 11 unsolved murders, racial tensions dividing the City, shootings outside of schools, gang activity inside schools, young people leaving the City in droves, little economic development, empty and boarded up homes and businesses, no opportunities for our young people, and a lack of trust in the City leadership, I say we don’t have to focus too hard to find the negative. Pretending it doesn’t exist to hide failures and inaction does not make it any less real to those suffering.
The incumbents don’t deserve another opportunity to sit on the Council nor does anyone who’s been there before. We need new and fresh leadership. There’s a reason why 13 more people are running for Council in addition to the three incumbents. People want new and better representation. People are angry, frustrated and hurting, and all they’re concerned about is someone hurting their feelings and fragile egos by pointing out the problems that exist. Give me a break!
Please come out to early voting beginning on October 22nd and November 3rd to vote for a turnaround to get this City headed back in the right direction with new leadership.
